Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain’s Scrapped, So What Now?

The Obama budget had a wink for Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”—Yucca Mountain is now officially dead, after agonizing on its deathbed for years. The draft budget removes funding for the planned nuclear-waste storage facility in Nevada, which has been 20 years and more than $9 billion in […]